IX Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

MEDICON 2001

The forthcoming IX Mediterranean Conference is hosted by the Croatian Medical and Biological Engineering Society on behalf of IFMBE. The conference is to be held in Pula, Croatia, from 12-15 June 2001. In addition to the regular sessions, five special sessions addressing present-day topics of special interest have been announced:

SS1- HEALTH TELEMATICS AND TELEMEDICINE: TECHNOLOGY, METHODOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT ASPECTS

SS2- CLINICAL ENGINEERING TOWARD THE THIRD MILLENIUM: WHAT IS CHALLENGING?

Organised by AAIMB, Italian BME Society affiliated to IFMBE and both co-chaired by Marcello Bracale and Paolo Inchingolo

SS3- RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND COLLABORATION IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Organised by ÖGMBT, Austrian BME Society affiliated to IFMBE and co-chaired by Hermann Gilly and Gerhard Windischbauer

SS4- POINT-OF-CARE MEDICAL DEVICE COMMUNICATION: INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS - THE THEORY AND PRACTICE

Organised by AMS Consulting on behalf of CEN TC251/WGIV and co-chaired by Melvin Reynolds and Michael Krämer

SS5- BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE

Organised by IFMBE and chaired by Jean-Pierre Morucci
Two workshops on this actual subject will follow SS5:

Accreditation of BME Programs in Europe
Co-chaired by Dov Jaron and Joachim Nagel

And

A New Organisation for Medical and Biological Engineering in Europe?
Co-chaired by Joe Barbenel, Helmut Hutten and Niilo Saranummi

Up-to-date subjects will be elaborated and discussed by keynote lecturers:

• ADVANCES IN BIOLOGICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
  Metin Akay, Trayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, USA
• FES AND ROBOT ASSISTED STANDING EXERCISE
  Tadej Bajd, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
• SAFETY OF MEDICAL ULTRASOUND
  Branko Breyer, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, CROATIA
• CARDIOVASCULAR VARIABILITY SIGNAL PROCESSING: A CHALLENGE BETWEEN NOISE AND CHAOS
  Sergio Cerutti, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Milano, ITALY
• MODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF HUMAN MOTION - An Uppsala Perspective
  Håkan Lanshammar, Department of Information Technology, Systems and Control, Uppsala University, SWEEDEN
• HL7 AND ITS APPLICATION IN HIS
  Joachim Dudeck, Chairman of HL7 Germany, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Giessen, GERMANY
• CROSSROADS OF GLOBAL TELE-ISSUES
  Swamy Laxminarayan, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA
• ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ASPECTS OF ELECTROPORATION DRUG DELIVERY
  Damijan Miklavcic, Laboratory of Biocybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• INTERNET AND MEDICINE
  Marc Nyssen, Medische Informatica, Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie Vrije, Universiteit Brussel, BELGIUM
• ICT FOR PERVASIVE AND PROACTIVE HEALTHCARE
  Niilo Saranummi, Mark van Gils, Ilkka Korhonen; VTT Information Technology, Human Interaction Technologies, Tampere, FINLAND
• THE TREATMENT OF SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT IN THE BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE
  Mary D. Scheetz, Division of Education and Integrity, U.S. Office of Public Health and Science/Office of Research Integrity, Rockville, USA
• DYNAMIC IMAGING OF THE HUMAN BRAIN
  Selma Supek, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, CROATIA
• CARDIOVASCULAR DYNAMICS - ANALYSIS AND MODELLING OF ITS OSCILLATIONS AND THEIR SYNCHRONIZATION
  Aneta Stefanovska, Maja Bracic-Lotric; Group of Nonliner Dynamics and Synergetic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
• HOW DO NERVES REGENERATE IN ELECTRIC FIELDS?
  Martin Tomsic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
  Fajko Bajrovic, Institute of Pathophysiology, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
  Aneta Stefanovska, Group of Nonliner Dynamics and Synergetic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
  
• RELIABILITY OF SCELETAL MUSCLE BIOIMPEDANCE MEASUREMENTS
  Stanko Tonkovic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, CROATIA

The organisers have succeeded in organising seven pre-conference workshops to be held at the conference venue:

• W1- Biomedical Signal Processing: Nonstationary and Nonlinear Analysis of Biomedical Signals, Metin Akay, Trayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, USA
• W2- Electroporative Assisted Drug Delivery: Electrochemotherapy and Genetherapy, Damijan Miklavcic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• W3- Introduction to XML, Joachim W. Dudeck, Institut for Medical Informatics, Giessen, Germany
• W4- Advances in Unbiased Stereological Methodes, Lucie Kubinova, Institute of Physiology, Prague, Czech Republic
• W5- Quantitative Biomedical Image Analysis, Sven Loncaric, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
• W6- Motion Analysis: Clinical Topics and New Application Fields, Enrico d'Amico, CEO BTS S.p.A, Milano, Italy
• W7- Advances in Health Informatics, Ron Summers, Loughborough University, United Kingdom

The organisers are looking forward to welcoming colleagues from all over the world at the conference. The webpages of the conference are updated regularly, so for additional information see http.//www.crombes.hr/MEDICON2001.

Ratko Magjarevic
Conference Secretariat:
MEDICON 2001
FER - ZESOI
Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Fax: +385 1 6129 652
Email: MEDICON2001@crombes.hr